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illuviate

illuviate verb: to leach from an overlying stratum and accumulate in suspension.

Verb

illuviate (third-person singular simple present illuviates, present participle illuviating, simple past and past participle illuviated)

  1. To leach from an overlying stratum and accumulate in suspension.
    • This is due to the reason that these materials are rich in organic matter which tend to illuviate from the surface to the subsurface in the longrun and have tend to increase the clay per cent in the subsurface soil layers (Prashanthi, 1997).1998, Agricultural Reviews - Volumes 19-22, page 22
    • Defining the exact mechanism by which these metal cations become mobile and illuviate is where the two main theories of podzolization diverge.2011, Pan Ming Huang, Yuncong Li, Malcolm E. Sumner, Handbook of Soil Sciences: Properties and Processes, →ISBN

Forms of illuviate

third-person singular presentilluviates
present participleilluviating
past participleilluviated
pastilluviated

Questions about illuviate

What does illuviate mean?
Illuviate means to leach from an overlying stratum and accumulate in suspension.
What part of speech is illuviate?
Illuviate is a verb.
What is the past tense of illuviate?
The past tense of illuviate is illuviated.

Words near illuviate in the dictionary

  1. illutation
  2. illutations
  3. illutible
  4. illuvia
  5. illuvial
  6. illuviate
  7. illuviated
  8. illuviates
  9. illuviating
  10. illuviation
  11. illuviations

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